Yogi: When everything was okay, I felt like I didn’t need mindfulness. I didn’t want to spoil it because everything was okay.

Yesterday, when I had stomach ache, I didn’t want to look at it because I didn’t want to feel it. I was just making up that I could control it, but I couldn’t anyways.

Today, it was easier to reach mindfulness.

Sayadaw: Peacefulness, happiness, that everything goes fine, that’s not the goal of meditation; it’s a side effect.

The goal is wisdom; the goal is to understand things and the nature of things as they are.

We should persist in being mindful even when things are going well because if we don’t keep mindfulness with us, they will backslide.

When happenings are clear and we know that they are clear, they stay clear.

If we don’t know they are clear, they will become unclear; and if we don’t know they are unclear, they become more unclear.

But when we know it’s unclear, it’ll become clear again.

Yogi: If we know that it is clear or unclear, it’ll stay clear or become clear?

Sayadaw: Yes, correct.